Featured Bloggers
Every month, Harriet Books invites a poet to contribute two posts as the Featured Blogger of the month, in which they reflect on issues relating to contemporary poetry and poetics.
Featured Bloggers
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Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley was born to two True Temper wheelbarrow factory workers and belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the Affrilachian author of...
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Alice Notley has become one of America’s greatest living poets. She has long written in narrative and epic and genre-bending modes to discover new ways to explore the nature of...
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Asiya Wadud is the author of No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body (Nightboat Books, 2021), SYNCOPE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019), and Crosslight for Youngbird (Nightboat Books, 2018). She is the...
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Taylor Johnson is from Washington, DC. They are the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), and their work appears in The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson...
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Featured BloggerBy Benjamín Naka-Hasebe KingsleyApril 14, 2021
An eighteen-gauge syringe teeters like a spent cigarette on the edge of a kitchen plate. The pinky-length needle is gently curved with reuse, sticky now with amber, the dark honey...
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Featured BloggerBy Alice NotleyMarch 23, 2021
This book forthcoming, my first art book, has happened so quickly, as “written” and as published, that I can scarcely describe it. As I say in my intro, I bought...
All Posts
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Featured BloggerBy jayy doddJuly 16, 2018
It is a pleasure to be here. The here being where I am able to relay rhetorical musings & editorial perspectives for a kind of public. The pleasure being mine.
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Featured BloggerBy jayy doddJuly 9, 2018
You could imagine me a poet. But how do you imagine my hands, my mind making?
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Featured BloggerBy jayy doddJuly 2, 2018
Download with me, if you will, the cyclical discourse of poetry’s death.
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Featured BloggerBy Roberto TejadaJune 25, 2018
In that glow or glimmer is marked the poetic justice required to tell narratives of sight and sound in transformation.
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Featured BloggerBy Roberto TejadaJune 18, 2018
Born at the crossroads with the punk/performance art and music scene of Los Angeles in the late 1970s and early 1980s were budding intellectual passions for experimental theater.
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Featured BloggerBy Roberto TejadaJune 11, 2018
I gained the dubious ability at times to so create a network of alliances as to dodge the sight lines of oppression and the physical or psychic battery of its...
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Featured BloggerBy Roberto TejadaJune 4, 2018
What I seek is permission for a story line, clauses of invention, the chance to find cover in the episodes, a cascading commitment to making shape and being shaped.
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Featured BloggerBy Joel CraigMay 31, 2018
Personal growth and experiment can fuel cultural discovery on a community level.
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Featured BloggerBy Joel CraigMay 24, 2018
There is recital of poetry, and there is portrayal poetry. Portrayal seems a more fitting word than performance, as less can cling to it.
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Featured BloggerBy Joel CraigMay 14, 2018
At its most negatively capable, poetry pinches your business, your situation, your significance, and supplants it with protoplasm, percussion, and clairvoyance. It rewires your thinking.
Previous Bloggers
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Alec Finlay is an artist and poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms. Finlay was awarded the 2020 Cholmondeley award for services to poetry.
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Michael Torres was born and raised in Pomona, California, where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His debut collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press,...
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Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns, the 2017 APR/Honickman...
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Kimberly Alidio is the author of why letter ellipses (selva oscura, 2020); : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020); a cell of falls (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2019);...
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